Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4602324 Linear Algebra and its Applications 2008 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

The sandpile group of a graph is an abelian group that arises in several contexts, and a refinement of the number of spanning trees of the graph. It is a subtle isomorphism invariant of the graph and closely connected with the graph Laplacian matrix. In this paper, the abstract structures of the sandpile groups on 3×n twisted bracelets are determined and it is shown that the sandpile groups of those twisted bracelets are always isomorphic the direct sum of two or three cyclic groups.

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